Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Writer(1918-2008)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Birth: December 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia
• Death: August 3, 2008, Moscow, Russia
• Language: Russian, English
• Who he was: Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer; The First Circle; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Cancer Ward; August 1914; The Gulag Archipelago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
• Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom

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